Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee

He's the big bad boy of radio, known for his controversial on-air stunts and offensive comments. But beneath it all, Kyle Sandilands has imposter syndrome and just wants to go to bed early.  In this interview he tells me about his difficult childhood, why he doesn't drink, what happened when he first met Jackie O and how he subsequently engineered them to be the nations most powerful radio duo.  P...

For 17 years he was one of Victoria's big chiefs; a top homicide detective who investigated over 300 suspicious deaths. He solved murders. Captured serial killers. Investigated baffling disappearances, and knew a dangerous amount about the Melbourne gangland. So what does it take to be a criminal investigator at the highest level? He sits down to talk, in intriguing detail, about some of his most...

Have you ever seen a man as awkward as Luke McGregor? It was always his calling card as a comedian, but turns out it was a theme that ran through his whole life. Especially, his love life.   He was a 25 year old virgin who would pretend to his friends that sex was something that was regularly going on in his life.  But prior to exploring his sexuality on his six-part ABC iview documentary ‘Luke Wa...

Let's get one thing clear. Jordan Raskopoulos is not a unicorn. Although, hey, she has no judgement if you are. But Jordan is sometimes treated as a unicorn, because she is a transgender woman, AND a member of one of Australia's most successful comedy acts, The Axis of Awesome, who tour worldwide and have had 100 million YouTube hits. Jordan has been in Axis since before, during and after her tran...

It's the comedy of life with some of the funniest fellas I know. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is underway and I’m more nervous about this festival than I have been since my first festival. To ease my nerves, I’ve organised some chats with a couple of members of my #squad. Tommy Little, Tripod, Al Murray, Peter Helliar, Wil Anderson, Greg Fleet and Dave “Hughesy” Hughes. This year I’...

Dr Susan Carland was raised in a similarly Christian, white bread, Anglo environment to mine, so how did she get from there to here? She's married to Waleed Aly. She has two children. And a PHD.  So how did she become one half of Australia’s pre-eminent Muslim power couple? In a very honest conversation, Susan speaks about converting to Islam at 19, marrying Waleed and why she chooses to wear the...

He was the villian of the Making a Murderer documentary. Ken Kratz, the prosecutor who convinced a jury to find Steven Avery guilty of the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach. But is the documentary a reasonable account of the case? Kratz unveils evidence left out of the Netflix documentary and says, the other side of the story needs to be told.  Show notes: The Nitty Gritty Committee is hosted by M...

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Domestic Violence is Australia's biggest problem that we try to ignore .It ruins relationships, families, lives and can impact our next generation. Sarah Ferguson is a journalist who has been researching what goes on in Australia's home. The results are saddening, shocking and most of all disturbing. Andrew is a former abuser. He is guilty, he knows he is but he is also racked with guilt, or is th...

Annette and Stuart Baker and Frank and Alley Barret are members of a terrible club.  Both families lost teenage children to suicide.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author and journalist James Phelps talks about his book Australia’s Most Murderous Prison, Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail, and we hear from a former inmate about the reality of living in the prison system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Julia Watson is many things, a humanitarian, a mature age student, a published author, a mother, a wife.  Most recently though her life and her identity have been consumed by cancer.  In January of 2015 she was given 6 to 9 months to live, which she has happily surpassed, but there are no miracles on the horizon for Julia.    She’s written a book called Breakfast, School Run, Chemo, which is every...

Camilla was one of the stand out personalities of Australian Big Brother.  She fell in love with the gay farmer, she was nomintated every week and she was at the centre of a scandalous scenario in which two of her fellow housemaites were kicked off the show.  She was a proper wild child, even after she had a child, and she's still got a few surprises up her sleeve, including a ripping Ed Shearan y...

Marc Maron is arguably the world's most influential podcaster.  He's also been doing stand up comedy for over 20 years, and this conversation wanders into some classic comedian territory of jealousy and low self-esteem.  We chat about the Louis CK "issue", which is fascinating, touching and awkaward as hell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener f...

Justin Hamilton is the hardest working comedy man in showbiz.  He is also Australian comedy's most popular best friend.  What's really going on with Hammo? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Linda Buller's life has taken many twists and turns.  It's lead her to the selfless service of some of the mangiest creatures on Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15 years ago was addicted to John Edward's show "Crossing Over" in which he gave psychic readings to a live audience.  It was on daily on channel 10, and I didn't have much going on in my life!  I spoke to him ahead of his next Australian tour which happens in November 2015. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rachel Berger is one of the most influential comedians Australia has ever produced and every female comedian working today owes her a great debt of gratitude.  Rachel is also the child of Holocaust survivors which goes a long way to explaining her tenacity and anxiety. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Of course I love David Walliams' comedy, but I only recently discovered I love his kids books too!  This conversation was recorded live at the Atheneum Theatre in Melbourne in front of an audience of excited young readers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Willy Lermer lived through some the most mind-bendingly awful acts ever perpetrated by humankind.  Will his story bore you? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aamer Rahman has a certain reputation in Australian comedy circles.  What is it?  Is it deserved? What's he going to do about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He used to give me roses... Kerry Tucker was a "normal" working mum living in Melbourne's leafy outer suburbs until she was arrested for stealing from her employers.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Just like a Federal Budget over-view, only interesting!  Where are we, where are we going and who do we want to be? Featuring former Queen maker Tony Windsor, economic visionary Stephen Koukoulas and comedian Aamer Rahman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

80s dream boat, 90s leading man, millenial mainstay - Cameron Daddo should've been an overnight success, instead he's a bonafide journeyman, with more credits to his name than the entire Hemsworth family put together.  Cam is making it work and keeping the faith in the toughest talent pool on the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Adam Richard is one of my oldest friends. We met on the stand up circuit about 21 years ago and in many ways our careers have travelled similar paths. One big difference is that Adam’s been known to dabble in the dark world of celebrity reality television, which I don’t understand frankly, although I do love hearing about it afterwards and there’s plenty of that in this chat. Who’d have thought “...